He just couldn't let go of his Citroen!

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He just couldn't let go of his Citroen!

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Daily Mail, 15th September page 7 has a story about a man who found an enexploded mine of some sort in his back garden. He picked it up and pressed a button on the top, then thought, "I daren't let go! What if it is a bomb?"
Police were called, he fastened his thumb on with sticky tape and put his hand in a bucket of sand, (is it a wind-up that his job is as a sand-blaster??) and the Army were called in.
Turns out they'd blown up one or two of these in the past, and recognised it as an old hydraulic Citroen part. Anyone recognise it? Looked more like an oil filter to me.
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Looks like one of those CAV diesel filters, only thing I can think of with a "button" on it. Unless its something off a DS???
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Post by nick »

I reckon you're right, it looks like an upside-down diesel filter and the 'button' is the water drain screw !
I don't think its necessarily off a Citroen, I occasionally service a friend's Montego TD and the fuel filter looks exactly like that in the picture.
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Post by tomsheppard »

Just the Sun having a dig at those pesky Frenchies. Could be off anything. Bomb disposal good at Citroens, are they? The mind boggles! I suppose that's what they go like (Or is it due to a tendency to blow up?)
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Citroen.
More likely the tendancy to sit around for years rusting away, then they blow up when you try and move them? [:p]
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Looking at the background of the picture its more than likely the filter came off the digger right behind him [:D]
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is this story a coincidence :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3657984.stm
- wonder if any of these stories are "leaked" from a certain origin [;)]
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My kids love old spheres- paint em black and its a Dick Dastardly bomb!!!
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Between the Sun and the BBC it seems to have turned from a filter into a sphere......
It made me chuckle because part of my parent's farm was a WW2 airfield, with a former bomb storage area nearby. In one corner is a pile of about 20 discarded suspension spheres that I've been meaning to get rid of for ages.
I can just imagine someone digging them up in 50 years time and thinking
"OHHHH SH*T!!!" [;)]
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Post by uhn113x »

It isn't anything off a DS (the first pic) but the sphere could be. Seems I have heard a similar story before, and the item in question was a sphere - maybe it is becoming an urban myth?
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- like the risc of exploding spheres on Citroen cars [?][:D]
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Post by pwatson »

Same pic in the Telegraph - even my wife whose car identification skills only go as far as what colour it is said "that's not a Citroen sphere, it's more like an oil or fuel filter"!!
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pwatson you don't herald from Darlington originally do you? (slim chance I know)
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http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/News/sto ... 3A32%3A200
A bit more description from a local rag.... its green and round !
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